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going to or returning from their employment in the City. There are nine
Railway Stations, six on the Great Eastern system, namely, Seven Sisters,
West Green, Bruce Grove, White Hart Lane, Tottenham (Hale), and
Park, and three on the Midland system, namely, South Tottenham, St.
Ann's Road, and Harringay Park. Another is just on the border of
Tottenham—Stamford Hill. Nevertheless the congested means of
transit indicates that greater facilities for travelling are urgently needed,
and an extension of the Piccadilly Tube from Finsbury Park is long
overdue.
The population mainly consists of the working classes, and there
are various industries in the district employing many thousands. The
industries include Cabinet Making, Pencil Making, Dress, Blouse and
Mantle Making, the Manufacture of Pianos, Sweets, Stationery, India
Rubber, Emery Cloth, Brushes, Cyclostyle Materials, Lamps, Boots
and Shoes, Surgical Instruments, Pipes, Ply Wood, Joinery and Horticultural
Buildings, Bedsteads and Motors, Brewing and Mineral Water
Manufacturing, Engineering. The .inhabitants are for the most part
housed in Terrace houses in monotonous rows, designed without regard
to aesthetic taste. There are few slums, although there are many houses
badly in need of extensive repair, and not a few that are only fit for
demolition. The measure of overcrowding has only been approximately
estimated; that it exists to an alarming degree is too apparent.
No offensive trades are carried on in Tottenham, nor are there any
industries that conspicuously exercise an adverse influence on Public
Health.
There are three Institutions for the care of the Sick. The Prince
of Wales's General Hospital has 125 beds. This Hospital, however,
is the only one of its kind in North Middlesex, and its accommodation
is taxed to the utmost by the large numbers seeking its aid from
London to Ware and probably beyond. It has a large Out-Patient
Department, and is well equipped with X-Ray, Eye, Throat and Nose,
and Venereal Diseases Departments.
The North-Eastern (Metropolitan Asylums Board) Hospital gives
accommodation for 623 patients suffering from certain infectious diseases.
Tottenham's patients are mostly treated here. This matter will, however,
be dealt with more fully under the heading "Infectious Diseases."
The third local Institution is the Jewish Home for Incurablesa
large and beautifully appointed building centrally situated on the main
thoroughfare of Tottenham.